The title of this painting, No Swimming, might appear to be linked to another one, Safe Water Limit, since both refer to floating into water and other activities alike. That wasn’t my purpose – but, well, why not?

Titus Lucretius Carus (15 October 99 BC – c. 55 BC) was the Roman poet and philosopher who wrote the famous philosophical poem De rerum natura (On the Nature of Things), a work about the tenets and philosophy of Epicureanism, that I have always appreciated.